Trip to US

Here I am again, long time no see. How are you? Yeah, I had a wonderful trip to Columbus (Indiana, United States), I visited a good friend of mine. Unfortunately, he didn’t have any access to Internet and therefore I couldn’t update you how I am and what I do and I didn’t want to speak about the trip also beforehand. But now I am at home in Tallinn and can update you about things I did. I really hoped I will have an access to the Internet during my trip but I didn’t and so I was sort of offline for some time as you noticed perhaps. Sorry for that.

My traveling day, 18 Feb.That was a hell of the trip with 4 flights (Tallinn-Helsinki-London-Chicago-Indianapolis), everything went smoothly till Chicago as the weather went bad and the last (late night) flight was postponed. Luckily, the weather got a bit better and I got to Indianapolis just 2 hours later as it was scheduled. Though the day was so long, I wake up at 3am and got to the final destination only at 1am (local time), and lets account also the time difference, 8 hours back. So my trip lasted actually 28 hours. Puhhhh, long one, wasn’t it, but it was worth of it. Let me also say that if you can avoid Chicago Airport then do so, it’s the busiest Airport in US and there was a real mess. While I waited and spoke with Americans who waited also to the same flight then they said that its every day issue, the mess, nobody knows anything and delays. Overall it was nice of course. :)

My doings and activities. As my friend had to work during weekdays then I had lots of time to just watch TV, walk around the block, do home training, read all kind of magazines, did lots of thinking regarding my life and just chill LOL. I found a great TV channel, HGTV.com, which showed designers works, I mean they designed and renovated homes, did carpenters work. I got so nice and sweet ideas for my home/flat/condo, so I think I will do something interesting there. As you know the distances are big in US, so we went to gym in the evening when he got back home after work, needed to drive there of course. We went to a very nice gym. It’s called Total Fitness and if I compare it with some our gyms I have been then I would say that it’s very similar with a Sparta gym in Tallinn, though the Total Fitness is a bit bigger and there is lots more cardio machines and weight machines as well. I loved to train there. In the beginning I had hard time to get used to pounds and calculations but I managed as I mostly just divided the weight half and went from there. Now I look forward to go to Sparta and I start new routine from Monday next week, looking very much forward to it.

During weekends we went to gym and also drove around, did some shopping, also went to Franklin, Nashville and Indianapolis. I should have done some pictures but I always forgot my camera to take with me and so there aren’t any pictures about my trip. Everything is in my head. Though I did some pictures in Indianapolis, I included some of them here.

The weather. The weather was actually nice, it was sunny and warm most times. Though, we had also some windy and rainy days, which remind me a saying they have: “You don’t like the weather, wait a minute and it will change”. So, the saying worked very well and after few hours the sun was shining again and the weather turned out wonderful.

About eating, Well, during my trip to US I did some cheating of course and had some not clean base foods, let’s be honest, more than I should have had. I went places like White Castle for small cheeseburgers, Italian restaurant for pasta (cheese, crease), KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) for grilled chicken and Texas Roadhouse and Montana Mike for beef (last three places had a great food and they weren’t so bad for my diet). Also, had Oreo ice cream or Oreo Blizzerd to DQ (Derry Queen) what is delicious I can tell you, also ate pizza and sandwiches. On weekends we went to Waffle House to have breakfast, I loved the breakfasts (I had eggs and toasts, waffles) and the atmosphere there was really great, I will miss that. Yeah, so I had lots of meals what I usually don’t eat, but I ate also all the healthy staff as oatmeal, whole grain bread, lean meats, salads, fruits and veggies. So, overall I did fine and as I kept training and went to gym while I was there then I did almost fine ;) though these drive in places are incredible, they have even drive in banks. ;) Can you imagine ;)

Trip back to Tallinn, 3 March. Same way back and it went well, long though. The trip was safe, I got the entire luggage, didn’t loose anything and that is most important :) All the flights I have had my biggest concern is always the luggage.

About future, plans – there are no changes. Here I am, continuing the same life as I had before I went to US. At least, nothing will change for some time for sure and I will stay nicely here in Tallinn.

Ok, I think I wrote now enough and will stop here. Just information, I will work in Sparta FitShop at 1200-1800hrs on Saturday.

Hope you had also nice last few weeks and enjoying the life on this earth. Train hard! Oke :)

My very best and God Bless you,
Gerbel

PS! Yeah, while I was in US there came out a Spring 09 number of Buduaar magazine and there is an article about me ;) As it is in Estonian then if you don’t have the subscription or don’t read it usually then you can do it here. I talk there about me and how I do keep myself fit, what kind of supplements I eat and etc. All that information is actually available in different pages on my website in English as well :)

I say so many squirrels during my trip and i had to make at least one pic of one ;)